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Developing and validating a scale to measure teachers’ emotional labor strategy in classrooms

Teachers’ emotional labor is essential to teachers’ instructional quality, psychological health, and students’ learning effectiveness in classrooms. To assess how teachers manage their emotions to match the display rules of classrooms, this study developed and validated a self-report scale—the Teach...

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Autores principales: Ma, Pei, Yu, Jian, Qiao, Yong, Zhang, Lichang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9838403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36687310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09752-0
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description Teachers’ emotional labor is essential to teachers’ instructional quality, psychological health, and students’ learning effectiveness in classrooms. To assess how teachers manage their emotions to match the display rules of classrooms, this study developed and validated a self-report scale—the Teachers’ Emotional Labor Strategy in Classrooms (TELSC)—through three rounds of investigation with secondary school teachers. First, strategies and item statements were collected through existing scales, an open-ended questionnaire, and interviews. Second, the pilot study was conducted, and the results of content validity and exploratory factor analysis confirmed the 17-item formal scale with four dimensions: surface acting, deep acting, expression of naturally felt emotions, and emotion termination. The third round investigated 491 teachers and validated the scale: confirmatory factor analyses verified the four-factor structure; correlations among the four subscales and average variance extracted indicated good discriminant validity; correlations between subscales and emotional exhaustion, teacher efficacy, and years of teaching showed good criterion validity; and Cronbach’s α showed good reliability. Overall, the TELSC scale is an efficient instrument to measure the strategies that teachers use to manage their emotions in classrooms, and it can be applied to understand and improve teachers’ professional competence in teaching and emotional interaction.
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spelling pubmed-98384032023-01-17 Developing and validating a scale to measure teachers’ emotional labor strategy in classrooms Ma, Pei Yu, Jian Qiao, Yong Zhang, Lichang Soc Psychol Educ Short Project Reports Teachers’ emotional labor is essential to teachers’ instructional quality, psychological health, and students’ learning effectiveness in classrooms. To assess how teachers manage their emotions to match the display rules of classrooms, this study developed and validated a self-report scale—the Teachers’ Emotional Labor Strategy in Classrooms (TELSC)—through three rounds of investigation with secondary school teachers. First, strategies and item statements were collected through existing scales, an open-ended questionnaire, and interviews. Second, the pilot study was conducted, and the results of content validity and exploratory factor analysis confirmed the 17-item formal scale with four dimensions: surface acting, deep acting, expression of naturally felt emotions, and emotion termination. The third round investigated 491 teachers and validated the scale: confirmatory factor analyses verified the four-factor structure; correlations among the four subscales and average variance extracted indicated good discriminant validity; correlations between subscales and emotional exhaustion, teacher efficacy, and years of teaching showed good criterion validity; and Cronbach’s α showed good reliability. Overall, the TELSC scale is an efficient instrument to measure the strategies that teachers use to manage their emotions in classrooms, and it can be applied to understand and improve teachers’ professional competence in teaching and emotional interaction. Springer Netherlands 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9838403/ /pubmed/36687310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09752-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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